BALCONY OPENINGS

GDR presented the first TOWN MEETING, ‘Balcony Openings’, inaugurating two recent growths off of the GDR apartment space.

The last months of 2010 saw the quiet and gradual production of new interior/exterior extensions to GDR that intervene in the apartment’s ‘look-out’ points:

We were here, by London-based artist and researcher, Paul Elliman (in collaboration with Amsterdam-based graphic designer Na Kim, artist and gardener Hans van Lunteren and ecologist and gardener Rob van de Steen), is an installation of public information panels mapping visible plant matter from the front and back balcony views,

MEAL MACHINE, by Rotterdam-based artist and current Dutch Art Institute student Doris Denekamp (in collaboration with artist/architect, Arend Groosman) is a greenhouse device constructed from open source techniques which will produce menus and coordinate new social rituals around its cycles.

These extensions expand space and site, challenge and reify interior/exterior and open up material and imaginative possibilities for further actions and contemplation of the domestic sphere. The manifestations will be inaugurated on 29 January 2011. We welcomed all to join us and the artists for light afternoon refreshments to toast this occasion.

NEXT MONTH’s TOWN MEETING

26 FEBRUARY
'What is still interesting about housework?'

To receive more information about this and future TOWN MEETINGs, please email us at gdr@cascoprojects.org.